my clowns roseanne & dan.

[PaulF]

Interesting picture, and extremely catching. Good work

[clarenceclose]

I have struggled to get any kind of a quality shot of our aquarium contents and come no where near this imagery. Very nice.
Would you be so kind as to share your technique?

[Peter Zack]

That's very good. Like Clarence I've tried these shots and for me, failed miserably. Well done and great colours/sharpness.

[attack11]

I have struggled to get any kind of a quality shot of our aquarium contents and come no where near this imagery. Very nice.
Would you be so kind as to share your technique?

i wish it was an easy answer, but it really depends on the light source and the lens. that's a metal halide light fixture and da* 16-50 with hood at 50mm (exif).

generally, it's not that different from shooting hockey

keep the shutter at atleast 1/200, center weight or pattern meter; depending on the light and effect you want. if you were to shoot with the fa50 and the same type of light i'd under expose a stop; like this.

i'd recommend taking a lot of shots with a sliding scale of exposure to find what combo works best for what you own, and make a mental note for how that glass performs. once you know how the glass performs, manual mode is great to work with to make things a little more dramatic. aperture priority is perfect for the trial period. bright point source light is not quite the same as the sun.

[attack11]

as for the camera setup itself. shot raw; no sharpening. no sharpening on the raw processing, only a very slight kelvin correction (da* glass is phenominal!). using the pentax profile in acr4. once in photoshop cs3, a crop to 5x7 ratio, resized. very very slight level correction 'cause the glass did a great job.

then a smart sharpen of .3 @ 130%. <--- this will get you all that detail that was recorded, as long as you don't sharpen until the final step.

noise reduction is turned off in body so i get full resolution.

[vievetrick]

great shot.

[gawan]

Great shot! I especially like the simple three main colour combination; orange-brown, blue and green. Gives a nice and relaxed mood that suites so well with the subject. Did you purposely arranged that background?

[attack11]

well, that's the tank colors... i just composed the picture to look good